Lost Jigs Per Session?

[upnort16]

How many Jigs get lost? I have three sons, living in north woods, fishing gravel and timber laden lakes, is the reason I started pouring in the first place. I recall four jigs lost in minutes, but the fifth jig landed the pike with four other jigs in it's lips! One stretch of river ran the box dry of 1/4 roundheads and 1/8 was not quite heavy enough. Seriously, a couple of hundred in a season between my sons, friends and family visitors. now a days maybe a dozen or so a season, unless I'm in Canada.

 

[Shoemoo]

Most of the spots I fish I don't lose too many jigs. Not a lot of wood in the water, though I sometimes bring up waterlogged tumbleweeds.

There is one spot I like to fish where if a jig touches bottom 9 times out of 10 it's lost. Whenever I go there I pretty much count on losing a dozen. It's the outflow of a hydropower plant, where the water comes out of the generators. The sides of the river are built up with riprap, and there's tons of rebar and broken concrete on the bottom. A vertical cement slab about two feet below the surface keeps most of the water flowing downstream, but some of it eddies around in a whirlpool area behind the slab. The area is about 30' x 30'.

Trout, perch and smallmouth like to sit in the calmer area behind the slab and wait for stunned food to get swept around in the current. Caught a 22" rainbow out of there a couple of years back. Last year I caught a smallie around 3 pounds.

 

[Fatman]

Classic spot right there Shoe!!!!!!

 

[AtticaFish]

...The sides of the river are built up with riprap, and there's tons of rebar and broken concrete on the bottom. A vertical cement slab about two feet below the surface keeps most of the water flowing downstream, but some of it eddies around in a whirlpool area behind the slab. The area is about 30' x 30'...

That area sounds like a dream. Perch, smallies, & trout............ doesn't get more diverse (or tasty) than that.

 

[StumpHunter]

Trout, perch and smallmouth like to sit in the calmer area behind the slab and wait for stunned food to get swept around in the current. Caught a 22" rainbow out of there a couple of years back. Last year I caught a smallie around 3 pounds.

It does sounds like a great place to fish.

 

[Shoemoo]

Yup, it's a great spot. You never know what's on the end of your line. Sometimes you get crappie there too, but they're usually not as big as the ones inside the reservoir.

 

[eyecrosser]

eye - when you make your own you don't worry about it.

Just getting into pouring my own jigs. Have been reading some of the do's and don'ts here on this site. I need to be on the lookout for some barbless molds for tying. Right now have roundhead and shakey head molds. Bunch of buddies want the shakies and pretty expensive in stores.

 

[Fatman]

Until you get them just cut the collars off, did that for years till I finally got the new mold.

 

[OhioOuchigan]

Man I have lost a whole box before on a snaggy smallie stream ....but also know I can replace each one easily.....so it doesn't bother me much.